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Gately, in every instance, tits. 6 . • • • ' fore much damage was dove. The ti rat ba. kr. I are the conspirators—for a conspiradrit • Xote, 7 , ! tt ' 41 ( % " - I • . • c•;,.. • --,• - • - . ••, yr • f --, - • le' • DR° 1. \'"" is generally answered this morning by the assertion that they are Southern emiesaries. In my letter. cf the 21st of last month I drew attention to an article iu a Richmond journal which specially re commended that New York ,and Boston should be set on fire in 20 places ou a windy Eight. in reta liation fur the atrocities committed by Gen. sheria clan in th.. Lhenandoah Valley, and by other Fede ral Generals in ether places. It is probable that Confederates in the city caul upon the advice, though not impossible that a gang of thieves seized hold of the idea and endeavoured to carry it into effect with the sole object of plunder. But neither Sheridan's acts in ;the Shenandoah Valley, ncr the bnrning of New York by political incendiaries, if such they be, can be considered legitimate moires of warfare, or anything but a shame, a seandal, and a disgrace to the cause on behalf of which they are committed. PRICE ...... ...ld STAMPED ....5d sande of helpless women and children without sup. port, and throw's them upon the charity of the public. The Mayor of the city recommends the citizens to observe the day in a spirit of kindliness and good will to all men, including, there can be no doubt, the men of the South—over whose de feats and reverses he would not allow his fellow citizens to exult at the public expense, by bonfires and illuminations, The Mayor of Brooklyn admits there are suffering and distress in the North, caused by the act of " wicked traitors" in the South; but is nevertheless of opinion that the North has reason to be thankful for the " brilliant and substantial successes which through God's aid the gallant army and navy have of late achieved over the armed power of rebellion." The Governor of Massachusetts is wholly religious, and his proclamation reads like a sermon. He blesses Heaven for all things—for health, for pros perity, for abundance, for sunshine, for rain, for life, for the hope of immortality, for experience born of effliction, and for the patriotism of the people, which he asserts to have been unselfishly displayed in the cause of justice, humanity, free. dom, sacred right, and last, not least, of " purity of religion" such as has been vindicated by generations of heroes and sealed with the blood of martyrs. The Governor of New Hampshire is not so fervent ; he merely calls upon the people, in phrase that savours much less of the pulpit, to be thankful for abundant harvests, exemption from famine and pestilence, and for the signal victories with which God during the past year has rewarded the invincible " loyalty" of e `or .e overnor oT Conn ec ticu tiiptete victory, and more especially that God has in spired the people with a higher appreciation of the blessings of liberty and order than they ever possessed before. This statement may possibly be true as regards the small State over which he pre sides, but when such things are remembered as Mr. Seward'e " little bill," the arrest of the Maryland Legislature, the forcible ejection of judges from the Bench by military authority, the career of General Butler, the suspension of the habeas corpus, sub mitted to with scarcely a murmur, the suppression of newspapers without form of law, the crowded condition of Forts Lafayette and Warren and other Federal bastilles, and the red-handed atrocities committed by such ruffians as Generals Paine and Burbridge in Kentucky, with the consent and ap proval of the Federal Administration, it must be considered inapplicable to other and less favoured districts of the United States. The Governor of New Jersey evidently thinks that a day of humiliation and penance would better suit the time than one of praise and rejoicing. He directs his people to pray that the rod of their heavy chastisement may be removed, and that peace may be speedily restored to the afflicted land. The Go. vernor of Delaware—smallest of the States, Rhode Island excepted—is gfateful for the protection of the persons of his people from harm and for the safety of their fields and fire-sides, for the libera tion of slaves, and for the prospect of peace; but thinks that the nation suffers by reason of its unrighteousness. From this he draws, or appears to draw, the comfortable conclusion that Delaware is righteous, inasmuch as she suffers not at all. The Governor of Pennsylvania is deeply thank ful for victory over the enemy, and for mani fold blessings which God has heaped upon the Pennsylvanians, whom he penitentially declares to be " unworthy." The Governor of Maryland, who holds his office by the military sufferance of General Walllace, returns thanks, and calls upon the Mary landers to do the same, because " God has crowned the labours of the industrial classes with a success calculated almost to make them forget that a veer of that magnitude is raging around them. The Go vernor of Ohio is equally selfish, and orders a thanks. giving because war has not come within his boun. dories. The Governor of Indiana takes the same ground for rejoicing, and orders the people to be merry, because they have gathered such bounteous harvests, and been able to contribute so largely to the war expenditure of the Government. The Governor of Kentucky, perhaps, with the whole some remembrance that his Deputy. Governor has been arrested by military authority and sent South, for the awful crime of sympathy with the objects of the Southern Confederacy, and with the fear of the awful General Burbridge before his eyes, thinks that God should be praised because the mi• tion still lives, and that the love of the " Union" glows like a vestal flame in the hearts of all true Kentuckians. The Governor of Wisconsin lays par. ticular stress upon the absence of famine and pesti. lence as a reason for the popular gratitude to the Dispenser of all Blessings, and is so.forgetfal of the facts of daily history as to proclaim that the free institutions established by the forefathers of the present race of Americans have been protected and maintained !As this is doubtful—to say the least of it— the Governor strengthens his position by asserting—what cannot be denied—that Wisconsin ought to be particularly thankful for having escaped the calamity which has befallen many of its sister States the occupation of its soil by hostile armies. The Governor of Minnesota, the only one among them all who has responded to the keynote struck by Mr Lincoln in reference to foreign foes, states emphatically that Providence has preserved the existence of the nation and " con founded the.foreign and domestic adversaries of its free institutions." He furthermore declares that God has evidently " placed the brand of His displeasure upon the atrocious rebellion against the Government of the United States." The Governor or Demi.Governcr (for he only rules over half a State) of West Virginia thinks mainly of " full harvests." He does not, however, forget to be thankful that his " beloved country still holds a place among the nations of the earth," though he appears to be dubious whether it will continue to enjoy that blessed privilege a year hence. The Governor of South Carolina—that is, the military Governor, supreme over that narrow section of the coast and the Sea Islands which is within range of the Federal artillery—addresses his proclamation only to soldiers and freed negroes, and congratu lates the latter on the fact that they have been en abled to gather their crops and harvests " without the accompaniment of the slave-driver's whip and horn." It will be seen from this brief abstract of such of these documents as have been published in the North that their Excellencies the Governors are quite as liable to the charge of sordid selfishness as open to the praise of genuine patriotism; that they look upon contemporary history with partial eyes; that they do not always tell the exact truth, but that they are remarkably unanimous in that at tachment to the Federal Union which is the all. pervading passion of the Northern people, and takes that place in their hearts which was, in the earlier and happier days of the Republic, consecrated to the love of liberty. Entry of the Prussian Tooops into Berlin. BERLIN, Dec. 7. The troops returned from the seat of war took up their position as half-past 11 this morning upon the old exercise ground in the Thier-Garten, to be re, viewed by the King, and afterwards to make their formal entry into the capital. The men were ac coutred in marching order, the generals wearing their full decorations. The I) annebrogs taken by the various divisions were carried by the captors during the marching past. Numbers of the men had garlands and flowers given them by the citizens in appreciation of their conduct, which they bore generally stuck into the muzzles of their rifles. As soon as the King appeared Prince Frederick Charles gave orders to present arms. The bands played the National Hymn and the men cheered. When his Majesty had finished his inspection he took_up his position at the statue of Prince Blucher, surrounded by the Princes of the royal house and the general officers, and the men marched past. The troops were received at the Brandenburg gate by the authorities of the city, and Chief Burgomas ter Seydel delivered the following speech : " Your Royal Highness, most Illustrious Prince, —ln the name of the city of Berlin I greet and heartily welcome within its walls the victoriously returning warriors, our brothers and sons in arms, who have added under your Royal Highness's ads mirable leadership fresh imperishable leaves to the history of Prussia, already so rich in exploits and honours.l L That which has ma d e P uss i a great in bygone days—the resolution cal m l y r i pened in the breast of the King, drawn f r o m hi s own l i fe, from the duty and calling of the State, which firmly an d boldly grasps thefavourable moment by the forelock; the nation standing ready in full warlike array at its monarch's summons ; the severe discipline of obedience and duty ; the joyful courage with which this people in arms have gono to battle and death ; these are the tokens which have marked the recent glorious days. And again it has been Prussia's good sword by which the frontiers of the German fatherland have been far advanced. " King Frederick William 111., of blessed and dear memory, once said, ' What Prussia acquires is a gain to Germany.' Half a century-50 instruc tive years—have passed since that time, and their lessons permit us now to say it without self-deceps tion and presumption. That soil, latterly saturated Wth Gur blood—that land, with the rough ore of its population stretching far towards the North, washed by two mighty seas, will only be acquired for Germany lastingly and securely, and to real profit, and restored to itself, when and as far as it is surrounded by the shield of Prussia's protection and power, when it is grasped and imbued with Prussia's stern discipline and order and State forms ing strength. " We rejoice in the gloriously gained peace, and are proud of it. Great things have been attained; but the hand still rests upon the sword. We have confidence in the King. He will speak the right word at the right time. What he has begun of his free royal resolution for the maintenance of German power and honour he will carry through to a good end, to a conclusion alike honourable and fraught with blessings to Prussia and Germany. And Prus sia's people—all you who live can testify as well as all those who have died a glorious death for King and country—Prussia's people will never hang back when called by honour and their King. But even the proud and well-meant word steps modestly back in the presence of acts. Leaders crowned with fame, your Excellency, valiant and skilful Generals tried upon the field of battle and of conquest, death defying ranks of warriors, all eons of this firm and faithful land, I bid you once more welcome to our midst and to your homes, and tender you, in the name of this good and loyal city, with full heart, the thanks which the whole country, with its King, bears towards you, and will faithfully preserve to all future time." His Royal Highness Prince Frederick Charles and Lieutenant. General von Manstein replied. The march was then continued along the thoroughfare Unter den Linden, where the troops were greeted with enthusiastic cheers and waving of handker4 chiefs by the people. At the statue of Frederick the Great the parade march took place before the King. After the parade march the troops formed up in the Lust• Garten, so that the storming companies were at the head of their respective battalions. Officers and men who had been rewarded for disc tinguibhed conduct during the campaign were called to the front and addressed by the King. His Majesty said : It is a glorious moment for me to see a portion of the army I was compelled to send to war return home crowned with fame and honours and enter my capital. All have fought with devotion and heroic valour. I see many around me whom I was able to reward for distinguished exploits. The troops of my illustrious ally the Emperor of Austria have vied in bravery with you side by side. Vic tory has invariably followed the sanguinary struggle, and an honourable peace is the reward of such great exertions. Our thanks are due to Pros vidence, upon which you have called in many a decisive hour, for the visible blessing extending to our just enterprise; but to you, also, I repeat and renew the Royal gratitude which I expressed in a memorable time at Duppel, and which the count try now offers you, united with myself, for having made firm and increased the fame, the reputation, and the power of Prussia. If the King summons you again remember the motto you all bear, and transmit it to your children and grandchildren--• ' With God, for King and country.'" COURT-MARTIAL AT, DEVONPORT.—PLYMOUTIT, Dec. B.—The proceedings of the court-martial on Commander Broad were brought une x pectedly to a conclu, sion this evening. He was charged with having, by written rd of t t e a r t e io d n, on wh t e h r e eaa jou n rn o a s l u s ch con f ere nces had been held. The Court determined that th e t o he er ß s o c c a h u e s , e conferences a d r co o n in fe t re Co e a s s t t g o u b a e rd en s charge had been partly proven ; but considering that the mi°opinions which exist with regar d t o th e meaning termofthfletilg "conference" might have led to an error of judgment on the part of Commander Broad, and taking into consideration his previous good character, they sentenced him to be admonished. ANCIENT AND MODERN PRICES OP HORSES. A French journal, after repeating the paragraph from the English papers relative to the sale of Blair Athol to Mr Jackson for £7,5000, remarks that however high that price may seem, it is far below the sum paid for horses in ancient times, and states that Philip of Macedon paid 13 talents for Eucephalus, which became the favourite horse of •his son, Alexander the Great. The talent was equal to 5,000 fr, so that Bucephalus cost 72,8D0fr, but as silver was at the time 24 times mote value than now, the above sum was equal to 1,019,200 fr in the present day, which is nearly five times the price paid for Blair Athol. November 26: Postscript.—New York was thrown into a state of panic last night by the discovery of a horrible attempt to burn down the city. Between 9 and 10 o'clock fires were discovered in eight of the prin cipal hotels, to two of which theatres were attached, and also in Barnum's Museum, which was crowded at the time with women and children. The means adopted by the incendiaries were the same in each instance. Some person or persons unknown en g- ged a room at the hotels, placed phosphorus and other combustibles under the beds or in the bed clothes, set fire to them, and then retired, locking the doors after them. These attempts were, no doubt, intended t o be s imultaneous, but from some cause not explained an interval of an hour or an hour and a half elapsed between the earliest and the latest. A great hotel was the worst building in the world for the purposes of an incendiary, i n .. asmuch as the constant liability to fire in such crowded edifices renders extra care and caution indispensable. And such care and caution are in variably employed, each establishment of any note maintaining its own fire engines and other eppli. LADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway ' s Ointment and Pills—. Happiness round the Hearth.—With the:sore trials, temp tations, and accidents daily endangering health and life in large cities, it is most important to have a t h an d some means of stopping the budding evil, f or the longer it is neglected the more wide-spread is the degeneration. 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AWHOLE LIFE MAY BE PASSED WITH scarcely a day of illness if PARR'S LIFE PILLS be used upon the first premonitory symptoms of functional de rangement. May be had of any Chemist. united companies, with a fixed minimum of £85,000 par annum. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts ou this company's lines for the week ending Nov. 19, amounted for local passengers to £7,439, for' foreign passengers to £2,852, for emigrants to £23, for mails, &c., to £642, for local freight and live stock to £10,554, and for foreign freight and live stock to £3,113; total, £24,623, against £24,307 for the corresponding week of last year, showing an increase of £316. The total re• ceipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to £472,470, and for the same period last year to £121,403, showing an increase of £31,067, or 12.14 per cent. without imprudence, be paid in macs or in debentures, in order to relieve the market from a mass of securities now floating about and impeding the improvement of credit. In the present prosperous condition of the trade carried on by the Bank, with the prospect of the development of which that industry is capable, a capital however considerable would, he "{firms, be at once and eagerly subscribed, and be got toge ther with the greatest facility. Subscribers would flow in from all parts of Europa. He, indeed, is blind who does not see tha marked tendency of capital towards establishments of credit. Ile, indeed, is blind, who does not see thnt the development of railroads throughout Europe necessitates the employment - "£ means of credit and of circulation proportioned to the immense increase of capital which is the consequence thereof, He, indeed, is blind who does not see that a system of banking, ag grandised and strengthened, which would reduce the rate of discount and which should have its centre in Paris, would before ten years increase fivefold the mass of business, pro duce a corresponding improvement in the wealth of the country, considerably augment the public revenue, and, by placing credit on its true basis, give to French policy a pre. ponderance that no other country could equal. Such an organisation could not be promptly developed but by esta blishing it in Paris Paris should be the pivot of this financial revolution. Everything is ready for it. " Let us, then," cries M. Pereire, "march along with a firm step to wards that object, and let us give the signal of the real or • ganisation of labour." The first duty of a Bank, M. Periere repeats, is to have from its own resources a metallic stock suf f icient for the reimbursement of its notes; but the raising of discount is the very worst means to employ, to keep, or complete this reserve. In truth, banks should have no other mission than that of furnishing money to the producer on the cheapest terms possible, for otherwise, it would be madness for Governments to accord to private establishments the right of issuing hundreds of thousands of notes at no other cost than:that of the paper on which - theyarrrmacle.-----A The criticism passed by M. Pereire on the constitution of the Bank of England is nearly the same as that con tained in the article which the Journal des Debuts pub lished a few weeks ago, and on which you made some ob servations at the time. Being led to that subject by the necesssity of proving that the raising of discount in Lon don deer not necessarily involve a similar measure in Paris. Al. Pereire declares that the charter cf the Bank of England is manifestly vicious and dangerous. It appears that the illustrious promoter of the act of 1844 (Sir Robert Peel) was too exclusively occupied with the thought of guarding against the return of forced circulation, and did not perceive that he exceeded the limits of a wise precaution, and that while he excessively restricted the writ of issue he imposed on the Bank the obligation of frequently raising its discount, and thereby refusing its aid to the market of capital at the very moment when that aid was most necessary. 1%1. Pereire concludes thus— "In this struggle of right, of truth, and of labour against error and extravagant pretensions, we consider that we are the interpreters of public opinion, which is greatly moved by the late measures of the Bank, by the prolonga tion of a system the utter worthlessness of which is every day more and more manifest. Old prejudices have had their day—let us at last come to the practice of the true princi ples of political economy. Let us not forget, on this occa sion, that the exactions of money lupins were among the principal causes of the intestine dissensions which devoured Roman society, and of the revolutions of which it was so frequently a prey. In our modern society, which exists only by labour, pretensions and indefinite augmentation of the rate of interest like that which we now witness would have an influence no less marked and consequences no less afflicting, for the slightest stoppage is, as we know, produc tive of misery and calamity." THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Nov. 25. Throughout the whole of the cities, towns, vil lages, and farmsteads of Federal America yesterday was celebrated as a day of thanksgiving. Business was every where suspended, and the people devoted themselves to merry making if they were not very pious, to church and chapel going if they were seri ously inclined, and to much eating of roast and boiled turkey whether they were pious or the re verse. Thanksgiving Day answers in America to Christmas Day in England, and is celebrated in much the same manner, the chief difference being that turkey and pumpkin (pronounced punkin) pie take that place in the festive observances of the time which in England is reserved for roast beef and plum pudding. Although the Government, or that branch of it administered by Mr Fessenden had not been sufficiently mindful of the fact that the soldiers of the Federal armies—many of whom have not received a cent of pay for seven months—would have enjoyed the annual celebration more completely if they had a few of their overdue greenbacks in their pockets, the Loyal Leaguers and the contrac tors, and the rich Northern people in general, were more sympathetic and more thoughtful, and took especial care that, so far as the traditional and in dispensable turkey was concerned, the armies in the camp with Grant and Sheridan, if net those on the march through Georgia with Sherman, should eat their fill of the national bird, and be otherwise as merry as circumstances would allow. About 40,000 turkeys, a few hundreds more or less, were de spatched to Sheridan's army in the charred and de• solated entrances of the Shenandoah, and as many, or more, to Gen. Butler on the banks of the James and the Dutch Gap Canal, and to Gen. Grant on the Appomattox, or wherever else his head quarters were yesterday established. And if the brave fellows who thus partook of the liberality of their peaceful, though not peace loving, fellow citizens had anything better than the execrable whisky of the camp sutlers to wash down the dainty, they bad no reason to complain that they were un remembered or shabbily dealt with. The Thanks giving of yesterday differed from all other previous festivals of the kind by being both national and sec tional. Hitherto the Governor of each State ap pointed such day in November, usually a Thursday, as suited his pleasure ; and it consequently hap. pened very frequently that this celebration was not simultaneous. Mr Lincoln this year led the way by a proclamation appointing Nov. 24 as a day of Na. tional Thanksgiving in all the States of the North. It was competent to the several Governors of the States to have appointed another day for the local Thanksgiving, if they had seen fit to do so, bu being of opinion that one such festival was seffi. cient they all agreed that the Federal and the State celebration should be held on the same day. Each of them consequently followed the example of the President, and issued his proclamation to the little commonwealth of which, according to the theory of the Constitution, he is the chief executive, to enjoin the due observance of the day. It is curious, and not uninstructive, to observe what very different and conflicting reasons are given by these gentlemen why the " nation"—for they will have it that the Federal association of States is a unit—should rejoice and pray, and offer thanks to the Divine Ruler of the Universe. Some of them are optimists, and see everything in the most cheery and roseate light ; others are pessimists, and think with Hamlet that the times are out of joint; some are utilitarian in the hardest degree, and others poetical and imaginative to a fault. Some are literal and confine themselves to the present ; others aspire to the prophetic and devote all their skill to vaticiaations of the future; some are grate. ful to God on pbyeical considerations, some on moral ; and by far the greatest number congratulated their people on the purely selfish ground that the evils of this horrible war have not been felt in their fair and flourishing fields and valleys, or in the smiling homes from which Death has not yet snatched a member. The President, in hip procla mation, is of opinion that the gratitude of the American people is due to Almighty God because "He has preserved the .national existence for another year; defended it with his guardian care against unfriendly designs from abroad; and largely augmented its free population by emancipation and immigration." The Governor of New York is thankful for the public health, for abundant har vests, and for what; he calls "other blessings," without specifying in what they consist. He takes care, however, to prove that his heart is not in the war by reminding the people that in the great cities many are threatened with want of labour, and con sequent want of food, and that the withdrawal of large numbers of ablebodied men to the unproduc tive and wasteful work of slaughter 'oyes thou" RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, BARODA, AND CENTRAL INDIA. The report of the directors states that in the half year ending the 30th of June last there had been a decided in crease in the traffic receipts, though no additional length of railway had been opened during that period. The total receipts on 185 miles amounted to Li 9,247, against £63,353 for the corresponding half of 1863, showing an increase of £15,894, or 25 per cent. The gross receipts per train mile amounted to lls. ld., against 12s 2d, in the corresponding half of last year. The number of passengers conveyed in tho half-year was 505,732, against 409,349 for the same half of 1863, showing an increase of 96,686, or 231 per cent., of which 93,309 were third class, 2,386 second ()lass, and 691 first class. In the goods traffic the increase of tonnage con veyed for the public to the extent of about 40 per cent ap peared satisfactory, while the open line extended no further towards Bombay than Bulsar. Owing to the detailed reve nue account not having yet been received from Bombay, the directors were unable to give the expenses or the not revenue for the half-year ending 30th June last. With re gard to the net revenue paid to Government in reduction of the guaranteed interest, it amounted up to Dec. 31, 1863, to 124,954, or 18'57 per cent. of the whole amount advanced by Government for guaranteed interest to the same date ; though the line had only been partially opened since Feb., IS6O, and a considerable portion of the capital expenditure was still unproductive. The rolling stock was in a fair working state, considering the great demands that had been made on it. Some of the ordinary waggons had been con verted into covered ones, and other desirable alterations had been made. Eleven powerful engines had recently been ordered to meet the large anticipated requirements of the traffic on the opening to Bombay. The unusually high and rapid floods during the late monsoon, sweeping down the river crossed by this company's line, and bringing with them large trunks of trees and other floating masses, had tested most severely the strength of the bridge work adopted on this railway. The principal damage that resulted was to the Nerbudda and Mhye viaducts. In the former which was composed of 69 spans, six in the centre of the river were carried away, and several strut piles and feeders were broken; in the latter viaduct some of the strut piles fell and two of the vertical ones were slightly fractured. Every effort was being made to repair the damage, and to replace the bridgework with all practicable despatch, and the chief resident engineer expected that this might be done by the end of the year, but it was a difficult and delicate operation. Meanwhile, the traffic had to be carried across the Ner budda river in boats, which had been a great drawback in the working of the line during the last three or four months. Those accidents were unattended by any loss of life or damage to property conveyed on the railway, and the experience gathered from them would prove of service in suggesting precautionary measures for strengthening the bridge structures in the central parts of the deep and rapid rivers where they were exposed to the greatest strain. Some of those measures were now being carried out in India. One suggestion of the Government as to wider spans and more massive piers in those places was still under consi deration. The necessity of erecting the second superstruc ture of the principal bridges with the double object of steadying the piles, and providing a second line, which could easily be used in cases of emergency, having also been proved, the directors had, with approval of the Secretary of State, entered into contracts for the speedy construction o the necessary bridgework. There ,was every prospect of the southern portion of the railway from Bulsar to Grant road, Bombay, a distance of about 121 miles, being opened for passenger traffic about the middle of November. It was hoped that this additional length would be ready for goods traffic by January or February next. Although the full benefit of the opening toßombay could not be expected until the railway was completed to the harbour at Colaba, a very large additional revenue must be derived immediately upon the trains running to within 3i miles of that spot. Bombay contained nearly 1,000,000 inhabitants, and according to the last official report its external commerce amounted in the year 1863-4 to £77,608,330, being an increase of £18,450,119 over that of the previous year, and of £35,578,000 over the average yearly value of the preceding five years, so that the importance of the completion of the line to the harbour would at once be seen. The total amount of audited ex penditure on capital account on 30th June last (including stores and materials) was £1,402,038, of which £193,412 was paid during the half year. A further amount of £622,811 had been spent on the works in India to the same date, which was awaiting the final audit of the Bombay Gra vern ment before being brought to account. The total capital in shares and debentures now sanctioned was £5,500,000, VALE OF NEATH. The negotiations which have for some time past been pending between the directors of the Great Western and Vale of Neath Railway Companies have, it appears, termi nated in an arrangement that the Vale of Neath Company are to? roceive 5'0025 sutra of 100 of the not ()amino of the THE BANK OF FRANCE. (From the Paris Correspondent of the Times.) M. Isaau Periere, of the Credit Mobilier, has un dertaken to enlighten the public at home and abroad on the question of banks, or, more correctly !peak ing, of the Bank of France, and to warn them of the consequences of the monopoly long enjoyed by that great establishment. He has published a thick pamphlet of 216 pages, sold at the trifling cost of If., entitled " La Banque de France, et l'Organisa. tion du Credit en France." Of the measure of his attack on that establishment, which has survived so many disasters, you may judge from this pas sage in the section headed " Monopoly of the Bank of France":-k- -- • " The question of the unity of paper covers a question of monopoly, or rather, in this particular instance, of the abuse of monopoly. The Bank of France,delivered from all sort of competition by the use of this great word ' avails itself of its privileged position to free itself from every rule in order to make heavy burdens press on commerce and industry, and to deprive more and more the funds of the State of all assistance and of all sup. port. The business of the country has augmented tenfold; the paper representing moveable wealth, such es rentes, shares, and debentures, has increased more than fivefold for the last ten years, and the Bank of France, which should have proportioned its resources to these new necessities, to this new state of things, has, on the contrary, diminished that which it ought to have devoted to them, by withdrawing from the industry which it profits by the totality of its capital, and placing it in divers permanent investments, and particularly in rentes, just as a private individual would do who had no duty to discharge towards third parties. This corn• plete absence of disposable capital produces the gravest perturbations and the most abnormal phe nomena. The situation is pregnant with danger to the public, but it is fruitful of advantage to the Bank." In a series of chapters 11. Pereire argues the questions whether the increase of the rate of interest is the forced and inevitable consequences of the diminution of the reserve of the Bank of France, and where there are not other means of keeping up that reserve to the amount admitted to be neces• sary—whether the rise in the rate of discount is the consequence of the scarcity or the exportation of the precious metals—and whether the rate of in terest represents the natural price of money—whe ther the Bank of France is really under the necessity of raising the rate of interest whenever it is raised in a neighbouring country. He has a few chapters also on the Bank of England ; of the causes which have led to its actual constitution, and on the diffe rence between it and the Bank of France; of the rate of interest, and of the proper mission of banks in general; of liberty and monopoly; and on the necessity of an inquiry into the constitution of the Bank of France. In the concluding chapter, in which he sums up, he puts fOrth : " That, as has been seen in the preceding chapters the unity of paper money, payable at sight, io no other than that of metallic money, and therefore it is of little importance whether paper is issued by one or by many establishments, provided that its convertibility into cash be constantly secured— that this question of the unity of bank paper covers a pretension to exclutive monopoly whiob is abused in order to profit by commerce and industry, under the pretence of reserving for the country its metallic reserves—that the measures adopted for the rise in the rate of discount adopted by the Bank when its reserve diminishes might be avoided, if it were obliged to use the means at its disposal to procure for itself the gold and silver it wants—that these means consist of the purchase of the precious metals with its own capital—with the real capital accruing either from the successive realisation of its Rentes augmentation of its capital, he m o f o n n o t r fromf the which is not one-half th a t o f th e Bank England—that the rate of discount is abso t no lutely independent of the abundance or the scarcity of money; and that the rate of interest is by no means the price of money,that price, which depends on the cost of production of gold and silver and of their relative quantity in the market, not being re. presented otherwise than by an equivalent in mer chandise of any kind whateve r; that th e B an k o f France is not necessarily obliged t o ra i se th e ra t e of interest, supposed, when it is raised in other countries, particularly in England; that, in point of fact, there exi s t s b e t ween t h e constitu tion of the Bank of Fran ce an d th a t o f th e B an k o f England a s is generally a serious difference, which renders quite illusory the danger of the outflow of money from France to England in case of the rate of interest of the Bank of England being higher than in France; that in England interest is raised only because the amount of notes which the Bank is authorised to issue is too restricted ; that in France it is raised only because the Bank h as not sufficient cash in re l a tion to its wants ; that banks should be sub jected to a maximum of interest, successively de creasing as a compensation for the right accorded to them of disposing, without interest, of a con siderable capital, and whi c h cons tit u t es i n th e i r favour a rich subs idy, and procures for them ad vantages which they should share with the public in the form of a reduction in the rate of interest; that the mission of banks is to facilitate the circu lation of capital and to let it pass, on the best pos sible conditions, from the hands that hold it to those who employ it ; that the Bank of France, being in possession of a monopoly in fact, has totally lost sight of its mission, and has come to regard the capital it has been permitted to raise gratuitously on circulation as a private property, which it may use and abuse ; that it thereby procures for itself enormous profits, to the prejudice of commerce and industry; that in spite of the great profits it thus realises it satisfies incompletely the requirements of industry and totally neglects those of credit and public works ; that there is no possibility of reduc ing these profits, of putting an end to the ruinous crisis which occurs every year, and of responding to the necessities of the country but by the competi tion of other capital, or by an organisation of credit in which the privilege of the Bank of France shall be revised and placed in harmony with modern in stitutions—and that in England, where reforms are equally necessary, there exists the right of modify. ing the privilege of the Bank on a year's notice; but that in France one is completely disarmed un. til 1897—that is to say, during a space of time which represents a generation, unless the. Government, unless the public authorities, hasten to take mea sures for putting an end to the deplorable state of things witnessed since the law of 1857, and which, particularly since the month of September last year, has paralysed all the operations of commerce, in - dustry, and credit throughout the whole of France. Such are the principles, such is the situation,' says M. Pereire." M. Pereire naturally concludes that the only remedy for such a state of things is the founding of a new establish ment capable of rivalling the Bank of France, unless the Bank think proper to profoundly modify its privileges, and above all, to renounce the benefit it derives from the law of 1857 with respect to its power of raising the rate of in terest. This new establishment should possess a capital far greater than that of the Bank of France. 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